Databases

Generally speaking, a database is a set of structured data (at least in the ufological world, as the first ufo "NoSQL" database has yet to be built at this time). Such a structure allow to apply processes on it, the most common of which being the search of some data given some structured criteria.

Concretely, software databases can adopt a lot of different structures and use a lot of different technologies. These can range from flat files to relational database (like MySQL), including Excel files or structured web pages.

More and more databases are becoming available "on line", that is, reachable through the Internet. The Archipelago project aims to allow the UFO researcher to access all those databases through a common virtual view that meets its needs (suited to the processes he wrote typically).

Online ufological databases :

• Base OVNI France
• Close encounters of the 6th kind
• CrashCat
• FirstHumCat
• FotoCat
• JTC (Just the Case) UFO Database
• Larry Robinson UFO cases
• Magonia
• Mini-catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI
• NUFORC On-line database
• RadCat (1, 2)
• RR0
• Temporal Doorway UFO catalog database
• UFOCat
• UFO reports involving vehicle interference - A catalogue and data analysis
• USOCat
• Water UFO
• Weinstein sighting catalog
• WUFOD (Wordwide UFO Database)